This recipe for a nice hearty meal soup is based on the tomato tortellini soup from 101Cookbooks ↗️. Although the soup is probably also very tasty with tortellini, it is not very easy to find plant-based tortellini in the Netherlands. Therefore, in this case, recipe Replacing the tortellini with gnocchi, which is easier to get vegan and still tastes very good. Some types of gnocchi contain egg, which is something to watch out for.

The combination of curry, lentils and gnocchi is a bit weird at first glance. Still, the combination works very well. Gnocchi itself doesn't have much flavor, so it's actually a lot broader than just in Italian dishes. The gnocchi clashes total not with the spiciness of the soup. It is precisely because of this spiciness that this soup is very suitable to serve on a chilly autumn day.

This is a very quick and easy soup, but still packed with flavor and filling. The soup is easy to make in advance, until the step where you add the gnocchi and spinach. You can also make more of that part of the soup and freeze it. Bring it to a boil again and finally add the gnocchi and spinach. Serve with some bread and/or a salad if desired.

Tips

• If you're using frozen spinach, take it out of the freezer before you can dispose of it with the rest of the spinach. recipe Starts.
• Don't have spinach? It is also very tasty without it, or replace it with green or kale, for example.

• 1 tablespoon of curry powder may seem like a lot, but that amount is actually necessary to give a good curry flavor to the soup. Curry powder also loses a lot of flavor as it ages.
• Garnish with some chopped hazelnuts if desired.